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India cleaned up Sri Lanka's top order after posting a mammoth 600 on board with centuries from 2 batsmen and as many half centuries in the 2nd day of the 1st Test. Sri Lankan top order looked completely at sea against the Indian bowlers. It is going to be a test of survival for the Sr Lankan batsmen tomorrow. However, it was a strange run-out that grabbed eye balls today. Watch the video below -

Popular T20 venture Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has signed popular Pakistan fast bowler and hero of their recent Champions Trophy triumph Hasan Ali. Hasan will be playing in the CPL for franchise St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, where his teammates will be the likes of Faf du Plessis, Samuel Badree, Carlos Brathwaite, Lendl Simmons and Brad Hodge. Hasan Ali’s latest signing comes after his agreement with Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) earlier this month, under which he will also be playing for Comilla Victorians in the upcoming season later this year. The 23-year-old is currently waiting for his US visa, which will enable him to play for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in some matches which are scheduled to be held in Florida in early August. Hasan Ali is confident of performing his best in his CPL stint and is looking forward to playing cricket during the off-season – an opportunity that would help him stay fit for when national duty calls, the sources said. The pacer, who b

There is huge pressure on Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association to strike an agreement, with Australian players selected for next month’s tour of Bangladesh voting to abandon the tour in the ­absence of a new pay deal and federal Sports Minister Greg Hunt intervening in the dispute. Australia captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner met with ACA chief executive Alastair Nicholson in an undisclosed meeting to consider their options after a breakdown in the talks with CA last week. The dispute has now entered nearly its fourth week with the players going out of contract – and officially unemployed – since June 30. The squad did agree to undergo a training camp in Darwin on August 10 after a vote but will not leave for Bangladesh a week later unless an agreement is reached, the report went on to add. The first Test, in the two Test series, begins 10 days later.

There would be hardly any cricket fan who does not remember Yuvraj Singh's brutal assault against Staurt Broad of England in the ICC T20 World Cup in 2007. Worcestershire‘s Ross Whiteley repeated the feat when he hit six sixes in an over on Sunday to join a select group who’ve performed the feat in senior cricket. Whiteley struck Yorkshire left-arm spinner Karl Carver for six sixes – a total of 36 runs – during the 16th over of Worcestershire’s innings in an English T20 match at Headingley. But he fell for 65 off 26 balls as Worcestershire finished on 196 for seven in a 37-run defeat. Yorkshire’s David Willey, the England all-rounder, earlier made 118 that included 34 runs off one over from Australia paceman John Hastings.

The Indian Women Cricket Team has put in splendid performances throughout the tournament to qualify for the Finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup. Cricketers, ac tors and even politicians took to twitter to wish the girls luck ahead of their final clash. Here are a few of them-

In an interview to CNN, current Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho revealed some interesting titbit about the controversial Italian footballer Mario Balotelli. CASE 1: Mourinho is quoted as saying, "Mario was good fun. I could write a book of 200 pages of my two years in Inter with Mario, but the book would not be a drama. The book would be a comedy! I remember one in Kazan. We went to play Kazan in the Champions League. In that match, I had all my strikers injured. No Milito, no Eto'o. I was really in trouble and Mario was the only one." "Mario got a yellow card in the 42nd minute, so when I got to the dressing room at half-time I spent 14 minutes of the 15 available speaking only to Mario." "I said to him: 'Mario, I cannot change you, I have no strikers on the bench, so don't touch anybody and play only with the ball. If we lose the ball, no reaction; if someone provokes you, no reaction; if the referee makes a mistake, no reaction.

Today, a group of 5 unknown men who reportedly belong to Ghanghola village of Greater Noida attacked India and Kings XI Punjab cricketer Parvinder Awana. According to reports, Awana was returning from Haridwar and while passing Greater Noida, five unknown people, who were travelling by car along with a girl, attacked him. The group of people, who was running away after having a fight in ice factory, thought that Awana was chasing them and, therefore, they overtook his car before assaulting the cricketer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (inputs from  ANI )

Arsenal FC came from a goal down to beat German Champions FC Bayern Munich in Shanghai. Munich took the lead as early as in the 9th minute of the match with the help of a penalty by Robert Lewandowski to put some early pressure on the Gunners. Memories of the 10-2 hammering in the recent UEFA Champions League must have come back to haunt the Gunners. While  James Rodriguez was seen on the pitch in a Bayern jersey but couldn't help the team to extend their lead. No goals were scored in the remaining 81 minutes, but Arsenal somehow managed to put one inside in the injury time, thanks to Nigerian Alex Iwobi . The match had to be decided through penalty-shootout after the final whistle blew with the score reading 1-1 . Arsenal substitute keeper Emiliano Martinez made two saves from David Alaba and Juan Bernat to save the day for Arsene Wenger . Alex Iwobi, Aaron Ramsey , and Nacho Monreal made no mistake in putting the ball in the back of the net .

Alexis Sanchez yearning to play in the UEFA Champions League next season will depart from Arsenal F.C. by the end of this month with Clubs offering him good pay . Arsenal failed to qualify for the Champions League , thus, disappointing the fans around the world. Meanwhile, with Sanchez leaving, manager Arsene Wenger is showing interest in signing Real Madrid CF star Karim Benzema . The Frenchman didn't look at his usual best last season and Real is willing to offer him for a reasonable price, with Zidane having ample young strikers on the bench. However, his poor form has not dispirited Wenger to sign him this season hoping he will come good this season in the Premier League . For that, we have to wait for the EPL to be underway. As of now, a deal is happening in the next few days. Stay tuned .

After Antonio Conte clearly declared star striker Diego Costa would not be part of  Chelsea 's starting XI next season, it is quite clear that Costa will make a move to Atletico Madrid soon as his former team seems interested in him. Ultimately, the Blues ' manager will have a huge responsibility of signing a striker that would fit in the team. An inside source has made it official that Chelsea is very much interested in signing Manchester City 's Sergio Aguero . After missing out on Romelu Lukaku and Alvaro Morata , Chelsea would not like to miss out on Aguero this time. The Argentine has been one of the best players for Manchester City for years, scoring 169 goals in six seasons and winning two Premier League titles in between. Confirmation report coming in the next few days. Stay tuned .

Indian Women's Cricket Team has been playing exceptionally well in the ongoing ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2017 making all the Indians proud with their performance. One player to have emerged in this tournament is 20-year old left-handed Smriti Mandhana . After recovering from a serious injury just before the mega-event, the team wanted her to be at her best and certainly, she has not disappointed . She has also scored a match winning century in the ongoing World Cup. The whole of India is crushing on her beautiful smile and would want her to score more and more in the remaining matches. With the Semi-final scheduled to be played on Thursday , i.e., 20 th of this month against heavy-weights Australia , the team would want her to come good once again. We wish her a very Happy Birthday . Make us proud , always !

Indian Super League is few months away and all the teams are busy upgrading their support staff along with recruiting new players from all around the world. NorthEast United FC has met with an agreement with Joao Carlos Pires de Deus , who will the new head coach of the young highlanders. The experienced 40-year old has been the Assistant coach of Portugal and also the coach of Sporting Clube de Portugal 'B'. He has immense experience working with young talents. NEUFC will smell something big this season, hopefully .

His International cricket career may not be in the best of health but he is definitely having a gala time in his personal life. The tallest International cricketer to play the game Pakistan's Mohammad Irfan became a proud father of a baby boy. On Saturday, he took to Twitter to announce the same and wrote, “Mera beta - another beautiful addition in my Aashyana. Please say a dua for his health, success and life.” The 35-year-old had two daughters and one son prior to the birth of fourth child. It has further been learnt that both the child and his mother are healthful. He is currently serving a suspension from all formats of cricket as he failed to timely report the bookies’ offers of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials during the second edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL), and was also fined $1,000.

The drama around the selection of the Team India Cricket Coach seems to be never-ending. After months of speculation, Ravi Shastri was appointed the Head Coach last week with Rahul Dravid and Zaheer Khan being appointed the batting and bowling coach respectively (only to travel when required). Post that, some sections of the media reported that Ravi is not happy with Zaheer's appointment and wants Bharath Arun as the bowling coach. Between all these, CAC's letter to the BCCI expressing disappointment went viral. Now, there is another twist in the tale. According to reports, Sehwag was Kohli's first choice before things tilted towards Shastri. Sehwag has been successful with Kings XI Punjab and with both being from  Delhi, there was good understanding between the two. However, Sehwag wanted to bring along with him a team of support staff that would include physiotherapist Amit Tyagi and Kings XI Punjab assistant coach Mithun Manhas and this is where Kohli didn't ag

      Image Source: Getty Images The ongoing ICC Women's World Cup 2017 has reached its business end and the teams are now vying for a place in the semi finals. Although hosts England, defending champions Australia and South Africa have already booked their spots in the last four but they will primarily play to better their positions on the points table. Meanwhile, the fourth and final spot is still up for grabs as India confront New Zealand in a do-or-die battle at the County Ground, Derby on 15th July(Saturday).     Image Source: ICC Mithali Raj-led India got their World Cup campaign off to a flyer as they beat England, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in their first four games. However, things did not fall into place after that as the Indian eves suffered heavy defeats against South Africa and Australia in their last two matches.  The Indian side will definitely like to work on a few things in their gameplay, be it batting, bowling or fielding, before t

India Football Tour is back to pick the team that will represent India at the Football Fives World Cup 2018, Beijing. IFT 2016 saw Kalina Rangers from Mumbai representing India at the world's biggest stage for amateur football. They were placed in a group that had the likes of Spain, Ireland and Egypt. Despite scoring the fastest goal in F5WC history and draws against footballing giants, Spain & Ireland they fell short on qualifying to the knock-out stages by just 1 point. IFT 2017 edition is a quest to find will India go a step further this time. It is India’s largest 5-A-Side football tournament for amateurs above the age of 16. The winning teams from the regional qualifiers will compete in the National Finals in Bengaluru. The national champions will get a chance to represent India at the Football Fives World Cup 2018 in Beijing, China. The event will be held in 6 cities namely: Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kochi and Kolkata and one can visit http://www.india

      (Image courtesy: Reuters) Undoubtedly, Ander Herrera is a fan favorite at Old Trafford. The Spanish mid-fielder has been well received by the Manchester United fans since his arrival, back in the summer of 2014. Interestingly, United had already made a bid for him the previous summer but Athletic Bilbao rejected that offer and made it quite public. Herrera himself, then, activated his buy-out clause so that he could force a move to Manchester. And evidently, if a player himself, forces a move to a certain club then the fans of that particular club have an extra liking towards that player. In addition to that, his expressive passion and love for the club didn’t do any harm to his popularity among the Old Trafford faithfuls. But Old Trafford often have an extra liking for some players even if they do not go on to achieve anything great with the club, Diego Forlan being a prime example. So is Herrera going to become a United great or is he going to be just another player tha

Manchester City FC suffered a huge blow on Tuesday's transfer window . Their main target Dani Alves has decided to join PSG instead. Well, his ex-manager Pep Guardiola won't be pleased with his decision, though. But now the things have cleared up and he is ready to join PSG this summer. Juventus have let go Dani after just one season . Speculations were that he might even consider his former club FC Barcelona , but his feud with the Club's President Bartomeu stopped all such rumors. A loss for City ?! Have to see.

The past few months have been quite eventful for Afghanistan cricket. After the dream debut for Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi in the recently concluded Indian Premier League, their national team performed exceptionally well in their series against West Indies. Their constant good performance over the years have been rewarded by the ICC with a Test Membership status. Adding another highpoint, yesterday wicketkeeper batsman Shafiqullah Shafaq scored a quickfire 214 in just 71 balls. In his breathtaking knock, he hit 21 maximums and 16 boundaries. The match was played in a local tournament (Paragon Nangarhar Champion Trophy). With the help of his 214, his team Khateez Cricket Academy scored a massive 351 and in the process handsomely defeated Kabul Star Cricket Club who scored only 107 in reply. Shafaq has made a total of 35 T20I and 20 ODI appearances for his national side, making his T20I debut for Afghanistan against Ireland in 2010. A regular member of the team, he was part of

Football is the most followed sport in the world with more than 3.5 billion fans. The obvious explanation being its aggression, tough competition, heart-pumping excitements, heart-warming moments and much more. One obscure reason to follow the sport is found to be the good looking footballers . Here is the list of TOP 11 Handsome Footballers of the 21st century- #11  Rui Patrico , Portugal He is the Goalkeeper of Portugal National Team . He was one of the 30 players nominated for the 2016 FIFA Ballon d'Or . Aged 29 , he is counted among the hot footballers of the current lot and thus, makes it to our list. #10  David Villa , Spain He created havoc with a stunning left-footed goal in the 2010 FIFA World Cup . When he retired from Spain National Team in 2014, he broke the hearts of all young women fans. He can now only be seen in the MLS . #9  Adam Lallana , England Lallana, an attacking midfielder , plays for England National Team . He is also an impor

As news broke of Wayne Rooney rejoining his boyhood club Everton, fans across the world went into a tizzy and there was an overflow of mixed emotions. We bring to you one such fan's heartfelt message to his idol which clearly depicts the current state of most Red Devils. Read this fan's open letter. Dear Wayne Rooney, Congratulations on a remarkable career at The Theatre of Dreams. Congratulations on becoming the highest goal scorer for club (ManUtd) and country (England). Though I can't quite remember when I started following football, but it was somewhere around the early summer of '07 when I was hooked to football (with due respect to cricket, of course). I was pretty impressed watching the English clubs play back then. After seeing Manchester United win the Premier League that season, I committed myself to being a Red Devil for life, promised never to change loyalties, ever, come what may. It was that same season, Wayne, you won your first of those f

Captain Cool has been a term synonymous with Indian Cricket Team's former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for over 10 years now. Cricket pundits across the world have applauded his cool demeanour and not crumbling under pressure attitude. Cricket is a religion in the sub-continent and we all know how sensitive we are about our religion. Captaining the Indian Cricket Team is no easy task and even greats of the game like Sachin Tendulkar failed to perform under the burden of captaincy. Dhoni's captaincy starting from the 2007 T20 World Cup along with his match finishing skills proved that he rightfully earned the title of 'Captain Cool'. Move to 2017. Dhoni is no longer the Indian Cricket Team captain. The reins of the team have been taken over by young, aggressive and one of the finest batsmen of current times 'Virat Kohli'. However, away from all the limelight has emerged another 'Captain Cool' who has taken his young and unpredictable team from ashes

With less than THREE months to go for the FIFA U-17 World Cup , football fans in India are going gaga over the extravaganza. The tournament will kick-start on 6th October with 24 countries competing against each other to win the predominant trophy. The final will take place on 28th October this year at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. This is the first time India will be hosting such a mighty event. Nigeria , the defending champions, will not be in the competition as they failed to qualify for the tournament, becoming the second team after Switzerland in 2009 to do so. The tournament will be played across  six venues , Salt Lake Stadium (Kolkata), Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium (Guwahati), Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Kochi), Fatorda Stadium (Margao), Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (New Delhi) and DY Patil Stadium (Mumbai). India has been placed in Group A , alongside the  United States , Colombia, and Ghana . They will start their campaign against the U

Gone are those days when people used to stay glued to their television screens to watch a Test match. Nowadays, Individuals find it difficult to even follow a 50-over match ball-by-ball. Going by the trend, slam-bang Twenty-20 cricket was introduced and even before the ink got dry on the page , it became people's favorite. Three hours of the day to witness a full match is not a huge deal. Batsmen staging aggression , bowlers showcasing their variety and fielders always on their toes . Not to mention, the voice of the commentators have risen higher than ever before. What more can a  ripe cricket fan wish for! Soon after T20 was introduced, various domestic leagues were organised across different cricket playing nations. India too didn't lag behind, and Indian Premier League (IPL) was launched in 2008 , with a primary motive of grooming the Indian youngsters for the international level. In no time, the league got significant fame, not only in India but all acro

World No 3 Karolina Pliskova was a pre tournament favourite. But as it has been seen many a times earlier, rankings mean nothing on the day of play. In a major shock today, much lower ranked Magdalena Rybarikova defeated the 25 year old Czech 3-6 7-5 6-2 in Round 3. With defending champion Serena not being a part of the Wimbledon this year and World No 1 Angelique Kerber not in her best form, Pliskova was a favourite this year.

Indian interests on the opening day of the 22 nd  Asian Athletics Championships were high with national record holder Muhammed Anas easing into the semi-finals of the men’s 400m in the morning session. Incheon Asian Games bronze medalist Arokia Rajiv sailed through in first place in Heat 2 of the same race, just as the third Indian participant in the competition, Amoj Jacob also eased into the next round with a first-place finish in Heat 3. The semi-finals will be held in the evening session. Anas finished second in Heat 1 behind Sri Lanka’s Dilip Ruwan, while Arokia and Jacob led through the majority of their respective heats to qualify into the next rounds. Asian indoor championships bronze medalist Ahmed Mubarak of Oman was the winner of Heat 4. The Asian Athletics Championships kicked off at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar today, with Chitra PU qualifying for the semi-finals from Heat 2 in the women’s 1500m, while Monika Chaudhary finished in fourth place in Heat 1.